Painter and maker of abstract constructions, born and lived in London. He studied at Chelsea Polytechnic School of Art and showed with LG, New Vision Centre, St Martin’s Gallery and AIA. Solo exhibitions included Heal’s Art Gallery, 1964, and Angela Flowers Gallery, 1982. Farmer said that “the more simple I can make an image the better I like it … The less can always expand in the mind, whereas more either constricts or becomes too much.” Farmer was co-organiser with Malcolm Hughes of Directions-Connections at AIA Gallery, 1961, and had work reproduced in Frank Avray Wilson’s Art as Understanding, 1963. The painter Adrian Heath was a strong advocate of his work. Arts Council and Contemporary Art Society hold examples. John Davies Fine Paintings helped reawaken interest in Farmer’s neglected work by showing examples in a mixed exhibition at The Gallery in Cork Street in 2005.